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THE<br/>
<span class=large>LAMENTATIONS</span><br/> OF JEREMIAH
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CHAPTER 2
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Misery and sorrow and desolation prevail in Jerusalem.
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How</span> hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, <i>and</i> cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/2/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Chr. 28: 2; 1 Ne. 17: 39; D&C 38: 17; Abr. 2: 7.">footstool</a> in the day of his anger!
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The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/2/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 23: 18.">pitied</a>: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought <i>them</i> down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.
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He hath cut off in <i>his</i> fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/2/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 74: 11.">drawn</a> back his right hand from before the enemy, and he <sup>b</sup><a href="lam/2/3b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jacob 5: 26.">burned</a> against Jacob like a flaming fire, <i>which</i> devoureth round about.
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He hath bent his bow like an <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/2/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 63: 10 (9-10).">enemy</a>: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all <i>that were</i> pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.
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The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/2/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Mourning.">mourning</a> and lamentation.
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And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as <i>if it were of</i> a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath caused the solemn feasts and <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/2/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 1: 13 (13-14).">sabbaths</a> to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
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The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/2/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 5: 5 (4-5).">walls</a> of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, as in the day of a solemn feast.
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The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/2/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 3: 26.">lament</a>; they languished together.
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Her <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/2/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 3: 26.">gates</a> are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes <i>are</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="lam/2/9b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Ne. 23: 15; Alma 59: 6 (5-6).">among</a> the Gentiles: the law <i>is</i> no <i>more;</i> her <sup>c</sup><a href="lam/2/9c" mark="c" type="A" title="Ps. 74: 9.">prophets</a> also find no <sup>d</sup><a href="lam/2/9d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Revelation.">vision</a> from the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/2/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 3: 26 (24-26).">ground</a>, <i>and</i> keep <sup>b</sup><a href="lam/2/10b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 38: 12 (11-12).">silence</a>: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with <sup>c</sup><a href="lam/2/10c" mark="c" type="A" title="Ezek. 7: 18.">sackcloth</a>: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
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Mine eyes do fail with <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/2/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Morm. 6: 18 (17-22).">tears</a>, my <sup>b</sup><a href="lam/2/11b" mark="b" type="A" title="Lam. 1: 20.">bowels</a> are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the <sup>c</sup><a href="lam/2/11c" mark="c" type="A" title="Lam. 3: 48.">destruction</a> of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
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They say to their mothers, Where <i>is</i> corn and wine?  when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers’ bosom.
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What thing shall I take to witness for thee?  what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem?  what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/2/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 19: 21.">virgin</a> daughter of Zion?  for thy breach <i>is</i> great like the sea: who can heal thee?
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Thy <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/2/14a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG False Prophets.">prophets</a> have seen <sup>b</sup><a href="lam/2/14b" mark="b" type="A" title="Hel. 13: 27 (27-29).">vain</a> and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.
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All that <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/2/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 5: 14.">pass</a> by <sup>b</sup><a href="lam/2/15b" mark="b" type="A" title="Job 27: 23.">clap</a> <i>their</i> hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, <i>saying, Is</i> this the city that <i>men</i> call The <sup>c</sup><a href="lam/2/15c" mark="c" type="A" title="Ps. 50: 2; Ezek. 16: 14.">perfection</a> of <sup>d</sup><a href="lam/2/15d" mark="d" type="A" title="Ezek. 27: 3; Ezek. 28: 12.">beauty</a>, The <sup>e</sup><a href="lam/2/15e" mark="e" type="A" title="Ps. 48: 2.">joy</a> of the whole earth?
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All thine <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/2/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lam. 3: 46 (46-51).">enemies</a> have opened their mouth against thee: they <sup>b</sup><a href="lam/2/16b" mark="b" type="A" title="3 Ne. 16: 9.">hiss</a> and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed <i>her</i> up: certainly this <i>is</i> the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen <i>it.</i>
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The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath done <i>that</i> which he had <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/2/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Zech. 1: 6.">devised</a>; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused <i>thine</i> enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.
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Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.
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Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
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&#182; Behold, O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and consider to whom thou hast done this.  Shall the women <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/2/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 19: 9; Ezek. 5: 10.">eat</a> their fruit, <i>and</i> children of a span long?  shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
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The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/2/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Chr. 36: 17; Jer. 14: 18; Lam. 3: 43.">slain</a> <i>them </i>in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, <i>and</i> not pitied.
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Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>’s anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
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